Kiwi_Builder
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What do you think they are? From what I can tell they're just the standard 62.4x20 wheels. -
Very nice The crane looks really good. You make me want to get back to working on my crane.
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Coming along well, having built the chassis and made the drive and steering work before I stopped I can attest that crab steering is a wonderful steering mode. I can get counter-steer, crab steer, rear steer, front steer and reduced swing-out through using one servo motor for the front two axles and one servo for the rear two axles. I'll post a photo of it when I find the camera
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European combinations certainly make a lot of new techniques, with the strict limits you've got to be creative to get the most out of your load. The closest we have to the sliding to reveal the fifth wheel is some lead trailers have the fifth wheel permanently mounted under the load area and the kingpin of the rear trailer is on a tongue that slots in the space between, and of course the plain old fifth wheel permanently mounted behind it. The fifth wheel under option is mainly used for tipping B-Trains so that the lead trailer can unload normally and on some of Hall's' refrigerated trailers for maneuverability in tight delivery locations at supermarket centres. Yeah the Super B, I can never find anything on it Okay that's good, cheaper than $25 Euros I should get my parts to build the Scania next weekend and then it's all on, I'm just finalizing the LDD of the roof for the trailers so they should be done tomorrow morning (about 12 hours I'd say), what I've got so far seems to be rigid. I've also noticed that often longer curtainsiders have support pillars at intervals on each side so they should improve the rigidity.
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Yeah I've seen that and as that people don't make them very often because they're a rather 'country-specific' thing to make and there aren't many of us from here that do Technic builds of trucks Then we have the wonderful people like you who are very good at it and make things from all around the world that take your interest I would build more things from other countries than NZ/Australia but I like the big combinations and Europe just doesn't have that with their 4x2 tractor units towing one trailer. Some Euro countries have the bigger units but I haven't gotten around to them yet, still playing in my back yard Back on subject, where are you hiding the photos and information from that because I can find all of your creations but that one Did you make a video of it? Also, what currency is the MOCplans website in? It only says $25 so I have no clue how much money I'm having leave me
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I'll start out in instruction colours and go from there. I'll work out what I want the end bodywork to look like and what parts it will require and order/find the parts required from there. I will probably have two or three layers of beams with pin holes for the chassis, cross-joined regularly. The interesting part will be on the lead trailer it has a step to fit the height of the truck's fifth wheel which is often a structurally weak area so I'll have to play around with that. The roof will have 6x[something] plates placed long sides next to each other with a frame connecting the joints with another layer of plates on top. I'll demonstrate this when I put it together on LDD. I'll use the smaller wheels used on the 42024 skip truck on the trailers as the real ones are smaller than the trucks' ones.
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This is why it's good to share plans and ideas, I didn't even think about the roof's structural soundness I'll have a chat to a man I know who teaches metalwork about the best options and whether it will be strong enough for the roof weight. I should be able to do some load tests with an aluminium tube next week. How much does the roof on your box trailer weigh, how long is it in studs and how is it built (As in say two layers of 6x16 plates stuck on top of each other or something)? I should be building the Scania in the next week or two when the parts arrive, then when it's done I'll start work on the trailers.
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I'll post pics of it for sure Yeah that's a 5-axle curtainsider B-Train which is a pretty common configuration for intercity freight. I will change it slightly to be 6-axle to make use of the HPMV (High Productivity Motor Vehicle) permits which means it can legally carry a higher weight on selected routes and be two metres longer than a standard B-train. HPMV unit above TNL run all sorts of combinations, curtainsider rigid truck and full trailer, hardsider B-Train and yes flatbeds. However I will still build the curtainsider because I haven't seen it done before in this scale, let alone probably not even in Lego so I'm going to be a madman and give it a shot I think that a box trailer like this looks more impressive as a finished combination because of the extra vertical size on it, that and I have planned on building a curtainsider for many years now so it's about time I did it The hardest part of it will no doubt be attaching the curtain to the top and having it be able slide the length of the trailer to open it. My best guess for how to do this is to use axles running the length of the trailer and connected and either end only to prevent the curtain from being stopped from sliding. The main problem is that the longest single axle is 32 studs, the lead trailer will be approx. 49 studs long (not including second trailer connection area at rear) and the rear trailer will be even longer at 83 studs. One possibility is to run a non-Lego axle between each end that is cut to the right length and fits inside of an axle hole, otherwise I would have to make the entire length of it out of the two stud axle connectors because if I only used them where axles needed to be connected then the curtain would catch.
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I just saw the chromed version of this and now it looks like it's straight off State Highway 1 over the fence I'm also pleased to say that the local guy has most of the required pieces so that will drop the price right down. I plan to build a B-Train to go behind the truck. Probably in TNL's colours so pretty much this but do a Richard Hammond and chuck a dog kennel on the front and you've got the end result
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Kenworth K100 Crane Truck
Kiwi_Builder replied to efferman's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
Sounds interesting mate, always happy to watch a K-wocka grow into reality -
The other problem with the K100 is that it's main function is recovery/towing rather than lifting/hoisting so it's not allowed anyway.
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Right so I have a mate not far from me who has a large Bricklink store which I can order from without even joining the website which I can hopefully get a large proportion of the parts from and then source the rest from other shops. The Australian shops help and they don't because it is definitely cheaper than getting them from Europe or America but they have a higher piece price than the others so it's not the perfect solution but it's the best option when you can't make the perfect solution
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I see, that's why it looked particularly familiar to me Here in NZ the trucks are the same as in Australia so I took the external air filter and RHD for granted but now that I think about it the external air filter is exclusive to us, either mounted just in front of the cab on most conventionals or behind the cab on COEs and some conventional trucks. I'll buy your instructions for this model as that it's my favourite Scania and it just speaks to me every time I see a photo of it (first time I've bought instructions for a MOC too). What is the easiest way to get the required pieces in the cheapest possible way? If Bricklink or something like that it would be best if they were all in one or two shops because shipping across the world to NZ costs a lot of money which I don't have
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Very nicely done, the T142/T143 are my favourite Scania models because of the sheer number of straight lines. This is why I would like to make the move to studded construction because the end result looks far better and you can get more detail into it which is something that is important to me. It looks far better than my fully Technic rendition of this truck from the start of the year. I should try to make it again but better because my skills and parts collection have increased a lot since then. One question though, where does the 'Australian' come into it? The only thing Australian is that it was sold in Australia.
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I'm considering pulling out of the competition because I'm having too many problems. The boom's too heavy, the superstructure's too large, the carrier's too small and doesn't work very well. I have other things that I want to build and my inspiration for this is all but gone so I think I'll take my new knowledge on crane building and assist other competitors where I can instead. I've learnt a lot but I think it's time to charge on to the next thing. Interesting, I'll give one of them a go for you later on.
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Looks very good and similar to my axle design for the LTM 1070. Do you plan on having different steering locks for the axles or have them the same?
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Looks good mate. To have the actual images in your post you can click on the photo option just below the smiley face and copy paste the link to the image like this: The photos on that website are a bit tricky because you have to right click on the image and select 'Copy image URL'. The photos are also a little too big to post so I recommend creating a Bricksafe account and putting all of the images there because it's easy to link them to here in a better size :)
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Instead of just creating many of these empty topics until you have 10 posts so you can add images, it would be better if you just make 10 good posts and then give us these threads with information in them instead of just saying what you want to build (You have at least two of these you have opened with nothing in it but 'I want to build this') You can add images before you get 10 posts by linking them from a website like http://bricksafe.com
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I'll be interested to hear what it is. Could you give me an idea of what it is? I have another week and a half of free time to test it in.
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Nicely done it looks great and works well too. English isn't your first language is it because I'm pretty sure that that's not correct for what the engine is
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You can enter just the crane part as far as I can tell because it's still a crane. It's just that you won't get many votes because it will be incomplete. That should be fine because the only purpose of that is to lift, it's just a really old hoist I'll be interested to see how this goes.
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My boom is the outer boom at 72 studs, first stage at 67 and second stage at 67. From what I saw of your LDD your boom has a larger diameter than mine so the 55 studs would probably weigh a similar amount to my 72. If Lego made an LA which was about 30 studs long then we wouldn't have a problem because then it would mount in a location where the only problem would be stability.
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How long are each of the sections because if two sections on mine are too heavy to be able to be lifted with anything Lego and refuses to do anything other than fall over there's no way you're going to be able to have four successfully. But I hope you will be able to somehow pull it together.
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I can attest to what Milan says. I built a two stage extending boom and I quickly found that while the boom worked perfectly and looked good, it weighed far too much. This caused major problems because with the current limitations of the lengths of LA's, they were unable to raise the boom because of the sheer weight with the pivoting point in a terrible location relative to the LA. This large amount of weight meant that there was incredible stresses on all parts of the boom and the areas surrounding it. No matter where you mount the boom on the superstructure, the counterweight required would be very large, causing yet more strain on all parts of the crane. All of this weight hanging off to the side of the carrier means that the stabilizers required would have to be massive and strong just to give it a better chance of not falling over. Here's my thread with my problems with the boom: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=114888
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That's the key to it Erik. Milan, I'm thinking around the 1:23.5 mark because I saw a MOC of a very similar crane to the one I plan in that scale because the wheels are larger. I'm hoping on solving the boom issues by making it only one stage extension by removing the outer shell and making what was the first stage the new outer shell. This will remove quite a lot of weight and make the boom diameter more to scale. I thought on pneumatics because you can easily link two together end to end to get a longer ram but as you say the problem with using air means that holding it up is nigh on impossible, I went to the end to end pneumatics because two large LA's lifting the boom in parallel were unable to lift the boom due to the tiny range of motion at the base of the boom. The boom and actuator are already mounted behind the turntable and moving them any further would make it look terrible so we'll see where we end up from that problem. At the moment I'm working on building the new carrier chassis, building the four steering, driven axles which won't feature suspension. I will get the multiple steering modes through using two Servo motors, one for the front axles and one for the rear axles. That way I can get counter-steering, crab steering, rear steering and front steering.